Justin Ahrens

Justin Ahrens is the founder and principal of Rule29, an award winning suburban Chicago-based strategic creative firm. He is a frequent guest blogger, national speaker and recently authored a book: Life Kerning: Creative Ways to Fine Tune Your Perspective on Career and Life (Wiley). Follow his and Rule29's adventures here or on Twitter.

To Design For Social Good Campaigns, Get In The Shoes Of The People You’re Trying To Help

You need real immersion in your client’s world.

To Design For Social Good Campaigns, Get In The Shoes Of The People You’re Trying To Help

3 Rules For Designers Who Want To Help Nonprofits

Don’t give your work away, but make sure you go in with a plan.

3 Rules For Designers Who Want To Help Nonprofits

How To Turn Colleges Into Incubators For Changemaking Design

When working on social good projects, designers can team up with design students. If done right, it can lead to great work and setting young designers on a future path to social good.

How To Turn Colleges Into Incubators For Changemaking Design

“Cause Design” Has Impacts Beyond Doing Good: Changing How You Think About Design

Working on issues outside their comfort zone can force designers to confront their own assumptions.

“Cause Design” Has Impacts Beyond Doing Good: Changing How You Think About Design

Impact

This new Ikea store has zero parking spaces

In this new neighborhood, every building will be made entirely out of wood

Microsoft is going carbon negative, will reduce more carbon than it has emitted in its history as a company

Creativity

What Beyoncé’s Ivy Park x Adidas launch means for the new age of celebrity brands

How Amazon’s new movie ‘Troop Zero’ got its magical realism

NBCUniversal’s Netflix-killer Peacock features ads, Spotify-like playlists—and a lot of ‘Law & Order’

Co.Design

Ceramics get a futuristic makeover

Unlike Ikea, this easy-to-assemble couch won’t test your relationship

Move over, princesses. These girls’ clothing brands glorify science

Work Life

4 ways to get over the new-job jitters

How to reinvent your email as a productivity tool

Happiness doesn’t always mean what we think it means